10 Best Comedy Movies to Stream on Prime Video (September 2026): ‘Death Becomes Her’ and More

All Madeline Ashton (Meryl Streep) wants is to look young forever — is that so much to ask? That’s why she betrayed her bestie Helen Sharp (Goldie Hawn) by marrying her plastic surgeon fiancé, Ernest Menville (Bruce Willis), so he could give her a spousal discount on all those facelifts and tummy tucks. But science can only do so much to Madeline’s aging body, so she turns to magic for help. With mysterious socialite Lisle Von Rhuman’s (Isabella Rossellini) help, she takes a potion that grants her eternal youth. It also makes her live forever, which is a problem for a revenge-seeking Helen, who wants to put her old rival six feet under.

Directed by Forrest Gump filmmaker Robert Zemeckis, Death Becomes Her is an oddity — it’s the world’s only sci-fi camp comedy with a straight sensibility. The visual effects, which were honored with an Oscar in 1993, are impressive, especially when someone walks around with a hole in their stomach. Streep is always fun in her comic roles, and she makes the most out of Madeline’s nastiness — she’s a Beverly Hills housewife you wouldn’t want to cross. The film’s MVP, though, is Willis, who plays the increasingly bewildered everyman so well that he gets most of the laughs.

It’s 1962, and if you’re living in Florida, the ongoing Cuban Missile Crisis could mean the end of everything. Yet for teenager Gene (Simon Fenton), all he can think about is pretty classmate Sandra (Lisa Jakub) and the upcoming premiere of Mant!, a schlocky sci-fi film about a man who becomes a human-sized ant. Mant!’s producer, Lawrence Woolsey (John Goodman), is attending the screening, and Gene can’t wait to meet his cinema idol. But he’ll first have to avoid the school bully, somehow confess his feelings to Sandra, and reassure his brother that they won’t be obliterated by a nuclear bomb.

Matinee is a loving ode to a simpler time and place that probably never existed. Like The Sandlot, it idolizes Kennedy-era America by focusing on an all-American activity — going to the movies. But rather than being annoying, Matinee’s escapist nostalgia is utterly charming. It’s funny, too, especially whenever Goodman’s showman film producer is on the screen. Mant! is far from the best film ever made, but the way he promotes it to kids like Gene makes it the most important movie of all time.

If the name Jeffrey Manchester means nothing to you, it’s probably because his modern-day gentleman thief routine played out over 25 years ago. Roofman is a crime comedy that casts Channing Tatum as Manchester, an army veteran who perfected a way of breaking into McDonald’s restaurants and robbing the staff at dawn — but politely.

While living in a Toys “R” Us to avoid the police, Manchester meets and falls for Leigh Wainscott (Kirsten Dunst), a single mother and a store employee. In Wainscott and her children, Manchester sees a chance to have the family life that he left behind. But he has a knack for making bad decisions, and he can only hide from the consequences for so long.

Roofman is streaming on Prime Video.

It’s probably best not to think about how 73-year-old Liam Neeson could play the son of Leslie Nielsen and Priscilla Presley‘s characters when they didn’t meet until 1988. So you’ll just have to go with The Naked Gun when it portrays Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr. in a sequel rather than a full remake of the original film.

Like his father, Drebin is the rare combination of idiocy and competency that usually allows him to get the job done. In the aftermath of a software engineer’s suspicious death, Frank gets close to the man’s sister, Beth Davenport (Pamela Anderson). From there, Frank literally stumbles into a conspiracy surrounding the dead man that has wider implications if he can’t stop it.

The Naked Gun is streaming on Prime Video.

Most of the humor in Novocaine comes from the insane things that Nathan Caine (Jack Quaid) puts his body through in the name of love. Nathan may not be able to feel pain, but the things he experiences are enough for the audience to feel it vicariously.

Nathan just can’t help himself, because the woman he loves, Sherry Margrave (Amber Midthunder), has been kidnapped by a bank robber. Although Nathan only has a vague idea of how to fight, he won’t let that stop him from trying to track down the man who took Sherry. Nathan’s unique “gift” might be the only thing that gets him out of this alive.

Novocaine is streaming on Prime Video.

The Pickup boasts a comedy dream team of Eddie Murphy and Pete Davidson as Russell Pierce and Travis Stolly, a pair of mismatched armored car drivers. On their first day out together, the veteran and the rookie are attacked by a criminal mastermind named Zoe (Keke Palmer), as well as her associates, Banner (Jack Kesy) and Miguel (Ismael Cruz Córdova).

Zoe has been planning this robbery for a long time, and she has an even deeper agenda than either Banner or Miguel realizes. That may force Russell and Travis to reevaluate how far they’re willing to go to protect their truck, and whether they can believe Zoe when she explains her endgame.

The Pickup is streaming on Prime Video.

Everyone loves Wanda Gershwitz (Jamie Lee Curtis), a female con artist who betrays her bank robber boyfriend, Georges (Tom Georgeson),  to steal the money he stole from a bank. She can’t find it, so she seduces his barrister, Archie (John Cleese), to find out where he’s hidden it. But a funny thing happens – Wanda actually starts to care for him, much to the chagrin of co-conspirator and lover Otto (Kevin Kline).

A Fish Called Wanda is one of the funniest comedies ever made. It needs no qualifications or justification – it’s simply a clever, laugh-a-minute comedy that’s also a pretty good heist film to boot. Kline deservedly won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar, and it’s an impressively physical comedy performance that still holds up today. 

The Little Hours may be set in the 14th century, but it’s more concerned with laughs than historical accuracy. It’s very loosely based upon The Decameron and features Aubrey Plaza, Alison Brie and Kate Micucci as a trio of nuns whose carnal desires can’t be contained by the church.

To escape his brutal master, a young man named Massetto (Dave Franco) begins working for the convent while pretending to be deaf and mute. His presence gives the nuns someone to lust over when they aren’t giving in to temptation with each other.

The Little Hours is streaming on Prime Video.

Five decades ago, the Monty Python comedy group unleashed one of the all-time great comedy movies: Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin all play multiple roles in this hilarious take on Arthurian lore.

Not even King Arthur (Chapman) is immune to ridicule in this retelling. Arthur and his men are on a quest to find the Holy Grail, and they do some very silly things along the way. Arthur’s duel with the Black Knight (Cleese) is particularly quotable even after 50 years. This is a comedic masterpiece that few films have ever matched.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail is streaming on Prime Video.

Monty Python strikes again with Life of Brian, a spoof of Biblical proportions that centers on Brian Cohen (Graham Chapman), a man who had the misfortune of being born on the same day as Jesus (Kenneth Colley). At birth, Brian is mistaken for the messiah, and it’s a recurring theme throughout his life.

Brian’s infatuation with Judith Iscariot (Sue Jones-Davies) leads him into the revolutionary factions who want to break Judaea free from Roman rule. From there, Brian’s story becomes increasingly absurd, including his face-to-face meeting with Rome’s governor of Judaea, Pontius Pilate (Michael Palin). This movie is hysterically funny for reasons you’ll just have to see for yourself.

Life of Brian is streaming on Prime Video.